[ AUDIENCE: TAICHI YAGAMI ]

[dormheads]

Comments

[inaccordant]

I haven't been avoiding anyone.

[he's always responded to your requests wow]

[goalsides]

[a pointed sip of his drink as he stares at chad over the rim of his cup. you've responded, but then you're like this!!]

[inaccordant]

[he's here and that's what matters, isn't it. :/

he just takes a sip of his own drink, his sleeve drooping just slightly to reveal the edges of a letter on his wrist.]

[goalsides]

[jan i hope you know that even if taichi's switching i'm bulldozing into you for threads. anyway. maybe make it feel a little less like he's holding you hostage, chad :\

he's curious about the letters, but he's not going to ask. i, however, forgot taichi's wearing his short-sleeved canon uniform shirt so it means that the word loss is pretty obvious on his forearm, even if he's keeping it mostly turned.]

You're not physically avoiding people, yeah, you're right. I'll give you that much.

[inaccordant]

[no. :/]

I wasn't aware anything more was required of me.

[goalsides]

I mean it's not, but I guess I'm just trying to understand it.

[other than his application has "inability to communicate with former allies" written on it.]

[inaccordant]

Understand what?

[goalsides]

Anything. [but he leaves it at that.]

Three vouchers for my digivice. [he's not taking no for an answer.]

I'm gonna guess there's no way we can exchange more vouchers for clearer hints?

[inaccordant]

[he sighs.]

Fine.

[re: hint, though—]

The price will always be 5, so no. You might have better luck if you know what item you want and how you'll use it, and exchange for that instead.

[goalsides]

[yay. he's going to pull three vouchers out of his pocket and drop them in chad's lap.]

We thought about it, but we were running out of time and got stuck. There's still too many of us to come to a good agreement right away.

[...]

What do you think about how yesterday went?

[inaccordant]

[he frowns, but fine, have it your way, taichi.]

... It could've gone better.

[goalsides]

Yeah...[it was painful.] I know there's a lot we could have changed, but I also don't know what.

Do you guys actually know who did it?

[inaccordant]

We don't know any more than you do.

[goalsides]

I didn't think so. [which is why he didn't ask before now.] That's...kind of terrible. Are the four of you going to be responsible for helping us during trials from now on?

[inaccordant]

It looks that way. From the school's perspective, your actions are ours to supervise.

[goalsides]

How can the school keep adding to your list of responsibilities without even asking you? Didn't you guys have to sign a contract or something to become dormheads?

[inaccordant]

It's not so much a new responsibility as it is stretching what we did sign up for.

[goalsides]

It may as well be new. It's not like you've ever done anything like solve murder mysteries before, have you?

[inaccordant]

No, but it's a matter of adapting. [...] Speaking of which, there may be something of interest to you.

[goalsides]

[...he concedes to that point because, like, fair. he has done enough adapting in his life to understand it when chad puts it that way.

but obviously his interest piques at that.]

Yeah? What is it?

[inaccordant]

Each of the Dorm Heads received... some kind of paper about the school. It's... [there's a flicker of something in chad's expression, before it disappears] ... nonsensical, but you might get more out of it. It'd cost 3 vouchers, though—no adjusting.

[goalsides]

[he vaguely wishes he had offered two vouchers instead of three for his digivice, but it's such a fleeting regret he doesn't think much on it. instead, predictably, chad is right. even if he can't make sense of it, it might be helpful.]

...it's something that I could share with other people when I had it, right? Or is it one of those "your eyes only" things?

[inaccordant]

[yeah, shouldn't have given chad more than necessary, you loser.]

The latter. Once you exchange for it, you'll be the only one able to see its contents, so you'd have to describe it to others or tell them to talk to their Dorm Heads for a copy.

[goalsides]

[stop it's fine probably. but...hrgh.]

...okay. [he will pull out another three vouchers to offer him.] May as well. I can keep earning them throughout the week and go from there.

[inaccordant]

[chad takes the vouchers, before producing a set of papers, which he hands over to taichi.]